Tumbling around in my brain this warm September afternoon are thoughts of children sleeping and playing beneath massive 500 kV power lines, and the voices of the over 1400 disillusioned and no-longer-unsuspecting Edmontonians trying to get politicians and industry representatives to hear their objections and to care enough to change course and bury the monstrous lines planned by the Heartland Transmission Project.

Many of those present at the meeting were angry and scared, and rightly so. The intensity of emotion expressed wasn't, contrary to what some have suggested, unjustified, nor was the information presented deserving of the label fear-mongering.